Words matter. These are the best Phylicia Rashad Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It’s imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways – ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
If I had known being insane was so much fun, I’d have gone crazy long ago.
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.
What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.
There’s all kinds of mothers, so to use the label ‘mother’ and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she’s a mother, is a mistake.
Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It’s not stagnant. I don’t get upset about it.
When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don’t give up. I don’t beat myself up about negative things.
What’s in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
Success for me means being able to work. I don’t look at so much at what I’ve done as much as I look to what I will do.
Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don’t go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There’s a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what’s outside or because of something internal? It’s always internal. It is.
I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.
